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Wikipedia Poem, No. 921

I decided to use the Pine Barrens site as a piece of paper and draw a crystalline structure over the landmass rather than on a … sheet of paper. In this way I was applying my conceptual thinking directly to the disruption of the site over an area of several miles. So you might say that my non-site was a three dimensional map of the site.

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 688

After James Schuyler

the daffodils that hammer
iron outside all day daff
odils that poem any
way they hammer iron what’s
that wolf say my governor
oh for someone like me i
speak to talk a small speck to
me i bark back at st francis
poem hammering iron
outside the window what’s this
that they iron outside in
the street i presume it is
the street and what of that fierce
hum that comes like a poem
through the unhealthy hatch the
ill hatch the daffodils cried

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Wikipedia Poem, No. 682

“Maybe you have to be from there to hear it sing” C.D. Wright

a bell
long ago
rung in fear
one with
a thousand
jumps
a great poem can be
wild nectar or a great poem
can be scrubbed from the timeline
from
by whom? his moaning
to be
how i assume
you didn't choose what
you'd surreptitiously strike
one perfect choice what'd you
have to not say
about the young plants
the end so wild
so abandoned of cherry blossom
not the wild plants with a thousand-word long line
and this morning i'm unable
to plant anything lovely
a cypher as if long ago the bell was rung
in a dark mossy room
ducks in marshland jump
into the air and crash
a great poem can be removed with buck
and jump a great poetry book should be
wild never hit one perfect cherry blossom
if by cherry blossom you mean sells well
every day i taste a man my poem
can be how it is assumed you'd never
choose what you'd never hit one
perfect choice nectar of the therapist
the tended-to plants present wild nectar
with both hands a great poem removed from
morning is not a therapist is not a plant lovely
his dog kills the therapist his morning
is lovely and romantic
and his morning is not the wild nectar
on the thousand turning silent eyes
so
there is loveliness and fun
the therapist and the therapist's dog
kill ducks in marshland
a great poem can be
removed by scrubbing
from mourning
i'm unable to choose
what you'd nectar on o reader
a great poem can be removed
from the whiteness of the bath
is not led into a thing
i'm unable to recall the wild never
the title of a long
ago rung bell afraid
one perfect choice what
you'd nectar on a great poem can be
how wild plants are lovely without us
and buck (he says you didn't choose)
on a great poem can be removed
and planted in the garden beside his body
i wonder
is there not a therapist
inside every ridiculous yes

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now outside are scary things
out there children play
other bells ring out then
cease with mouths and thin skin
everything with clout is immediate and
blood waits for a bout below layers of paper

my dog watches a goldfinch
with her nose she cries
and whines complains
or does not understand the screen
a hinge creaks between
her wet nose in here and her memory
of sprinting
of the dry grass
on her brown back
of the unexpected
pizza crust she looks into me

with the excited eyes of a middle-aged
woman who in 2017 bravely enrolls
in an online poetry course
the TA refuses to insist
Frank O’Hara’s Personal Poem
has nothing to do with her
racial hangups he lost

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“There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He permitted them. Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.” Matthew 8

doubts himself
as a substitute for humans
noble traditions argue
that cynics set rules

in nature dogs have set rules
in nature dogs have a lead scholar
a doubt that itself is a century
jesus matthew luke and strong similarities

between those set jewish rules
in nature and dogs of notable drool
in nature dogs require a day’s work
from a hellenistic jewish root

thought and prophetic traditions
watchdog in finery in which
hellenistic jews thought to smell
the cynics and mack strong similarities

between this and romantic relation
the cynics see the cynics and set rules
in nature dogs have packs
therefore when humans establish

traditions known to themselves
only as a substitute for dogs
argue rather as a dog would order
therefore humans to the historians

life argues itself as a world
in danger of cities of cynics and set
rules in natural dogs have noble sailed
to ancient gerasenes opposite galilee

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“two mice are dead, for my wife. / mice make her legs / go watery, as they do sometimes after her climax.” Denis Johnson

and readers quiet books
context as right pull'er vocabulary a
smaller
vocabulary:
big-city
newspapers,
this
disenter? iced
coffee, should
i
give
up being a dog
context 1201
fullsizerender the newspaper or
bush? outrage world slept, this disinterest
context 1142
03102016
i’m going to shut up?
context 1349
lifter puller vocabulary: big-city
newspapers of
confirmationers
context
1917
have all
find
context
1349
lifter agape why do I
fast or
playground
kids are righter of culture and practitioner journey to
point
the nations with wide circulation a
small drink
more coffee, should
i give up